Example sentences of "be just [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear vague noises for a bit , but even straining I could n't make out what they were , and they could have been just noises on the line . |
| 2 | So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends . |
| 3 | No it must have been just coincidence . |
| 4 | It 's been just trenches , tents and gymnasiums lately . ’ |
| 5 | And it was funny how he had looked at them all , during that funeral , and thought about them afterwards , but they had all been just strangers , not people he was ever likely to meet , or even see again . |
| 6 | He must have been interviewed during the night of panic following the murder ; in the rational light of dawn he would recognise that his words had been just heroics . |
| 7 | Third Division Bolton had been just seconds from victory before Horne cracked in a superb 35-yard goal to send the tie into extra time , in injury time . |
| 8 | Third Division Bolton had been just seconds from victory before Horne cracked in a superb 35-yard goal to send the tie into extra time , in injury time . |
| 9 | Rather , future and past are just directions , like up and down , left and right , forward and back , in something called space-time . |
| 10 | Many are just sharks , keeping the enquirer on the line at premium rates , says the Telephone Information watchdog ICSTIS . |
| 11 | Now points eleven and twelve are just T G I so we 'll just plonk in what . |
| 12 | First , there are just institutions which neither possess , nor claim to possess , any authority . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's like saying an all-woman band are just vaginas on stage . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's like saying an all-woman band are just vaginas on stage . |
| 15 | And these are just thoughts about the spectacles qua physical objects of a certain size and weight . |
| 16 | These are just thoughts . |
| 17 | But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary . |
| 18 | Some are just housewives , and there 's at least one who I know does n't need the money . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Some of them are just minutes from the road . |
| 20 | Of course , many of these are just signs of normal growing pains — particularly those higher up the list . |
| 21 | Did your grandparents mention any other parts of the glen that used to used away back in time that are just ruins now ? |
| 22 | are shorter than everybody else 's and , but this one had a , a cape on with a gold braid which meant he was a big high up one , and he was just absolutely paranoid , I mean they reckon that the Matawa are such fanatics that they are just Greeks , you know they just , you know these ones that just |
| 23 | There are just hints of Balthus 's influence in her interiors ; enough to add a piquancy to a supremely-decorative style . |
| 24 | And Conroy dearest , go up to Mummy 's room and wait there till I come , and try to pretend that all the dreadful things that have happened are just part of the play . ’ |
| 25 | I hope all these very pretty sentiments about not being strong enough to stand watching other people doing things in the war are just part of a passing phase ; or maybe it 's these ‘ books of a higher nature ’ … but I never credited you with being able to talk such utter balls . |
| 26 | Some ‘ buses still serve some of the same places , but these are just part of the normal service . |
| 27 | The capacity rules are just part of a now long list of rules and regulations that surround university life , and make extra demands on the time and freedom of academics . |
| 28 | The bikes are just part of the endurance hardware . |
| 29 | Over in Water Ross the deer are just part of what is seen as the larger problem of who is in charge , and who makes decisions about wild places . |
| 30 | Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job . |